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No. 561,254. Patented June 2, 18967 ANDREW BLRAHAM.PMUTOUMQWASHINGTDILDC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

SAMUEL BRENTNALL, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR FILING AND KEEPING DOCUMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent No. 561,254, dated June 2,1896.

Application filed November 9, 1895. Serial No. 568,479. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/007%: 1

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BEENTNALL,

a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at NorthStreet, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Means for Filing and KeepingDocuments, Specimens, Samples, and the Like in Desks, Consulting-Tables,Escritoires, and other Articles of Office and Domestic Furniture, ofwhich the following is a specification.

.4 With the object of rendering the invention more clear I have attachedthree sheets of drawings to this specification, to which I will nowrefer.

On Sheet l Figure l is a front view of the compartment or pigeonholewheel in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a side view. On Sheet 2 Fig. 3 isan enlarged view of a portion of the wheel, showing the upper part ofone of the compartments. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the same atright angles to Fig. 3. On Sheet 3 Fig. 5 is a view of a. modified formof my invention, in which a movable chain of compartments is substitutedfor the wheel.

The sectioned portions marked a represent the adjacent parts of aconsulting-table or roll-top desk or escritoire or other article offurniture. The wheel A is mounted in a compartment Z7 at the back or inany other suitable part of the piece of furniture. The wheel A iscarried on a central spindle or on pivots or trunnions c, upon which thewheel can revolve.

The top of the table CL is cut out -to allow the wheel to projectslightly above it, as clearly shown in Figs. I and 2. This projectingpart of the wheel is or may becovered or boxed in by a hinged box-lid d,the front of which may be glazed, if desired. Thishinged box-lid CZ canbe turned over on its hinges, so as to uncover the protruding part ofthe wheel, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The lid d may also befurnished with a lock and key, so that when the lid is shut down andlocked the wheel with its contents is rendered absolutely inaccessibleexcept to the holder of the key. The wheel A is divided intocompartments c, as shown in Fig. 1, each compartment having a hinged lidf. Each compartment is identified by a letter or number on the lid orfront. A convenient place to paint such letter or number would be on thebutton or knob g, attached to a springcatch h, which engages with aprojection t from the inside of the lid, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4:.This knob projects through the front of the wheel and can be pressed soas to release the lid and allow it to be lifted by means of the knob f',as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4. To keep the contents of thecompartments from falling out as the wheel is turned around, it isnecessary that the lids f should be closed and snapped down. Anyomission to do this is safeguarded by the provision that unless the lidof the compartment last used is closed and snapped down the wheel cannotbe revolved to either side, since the unclosed or projecting lid willnot pass through the gap in the table. Thus the unclosed lid serves tolock the wheel in position and no mistake can be made. The wheel mightbe arranged with its axis vertical instead of horizontal, as described.

It will be evident that instead of a wheel, as illustrated, I might usea chain of compartments carried on a wheel or on two Wheels. I show thisarrangement on Sheet 3 of the drawings, Fig. 5 being a front view of theapparatus. In this case I mount tWo wheels k lc at any suitable part ofthe desk. These wheels carry a chain of compartments Z, each carryingits proper letter or number. The compartment at the top passes through ahinged box-lid d, just as in the case of the wheel. Each compartment isalso tted with a spring snap-lid, as in the case of the wheel, andpractically there is no substantial diiference between the twoarrangements.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination, the traveling carrier having the file-boxes extendingtherein radially, the casing having an opening through which thefile-box projects, each iile-boxhaving a hinged cover held by a catch,said cover being arranged to strike the vwalls of the opening when notheld by its catch to close the filebox and the movable cover for theprojecting file box and carrier, substantially as' de scribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Vhand in presence of twowitnesses.

SAMUEL BRENTNALL.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA Enrwrsnn, ALFRED YATEs.

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